Default Applications control-center in GNOME (was: Re: Default mailto application on Fedora 17)

2013-01-12 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 12:00:23 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: Who invokes what for different mime types is a great mystery I spent some time decrypting (though I'm not sure a mailto link goes through the same process). Here's my results: http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/game/mimes.html :-(

Re: Default mailto application on Fedora 17

2013-01-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/08/2013 03:12 PM, Dave Close wrote: If I understood Ed Greshko correctly, we have this situation. Who XDGGnome setting KDE setting TB Firefox default Me ?? Evolution Kmailyes Thunderbird Ed Claws Evolution Kmailno Evolution Ed Claws

Re: Default mailto application on Fedora 17

2013-01-08 Thread g
On 01/08/2013 01:56 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: So, I've given up on finding how/where default applications information is kept and/or decided upon by various applications. I only now concentrate on getting things to work the way I want them to work. i agree with you as to confusion of

Re: Default mailto application on Fedora 17

2013-01-08 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 13:35:09 + g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: On 01/08/2013 01:56 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: So, I've given up on finding how/where default applications information is kept and/or decided upon by various applications. I only now concentrate on getting things to work the

Re: Default mailto application on Fedora 17

2013-01-08 Thread Lailah
Hi! See in about:config and search for mailto. You will find a list of configurations about it. Hope this helps Lailah -- There's always someone, in somewhere, celebrating a new year signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- users mailing

Re: Default mailto application on Fedora 17

2013-01-08 Thread Rex Dieter
Ed Greshko wrote: xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler mailto mozilla-thunderbird.desktop it did not change things as a get returned [egreshko@localhost ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler mailto handler is claws-mail.desktop So, strangely, xdg-settings set appears

Re: Default mailto application on Fedora 17

2013-01-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/09/2013 03:12 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler mailto mozilla-thunderbird.desktop it did not change things as a get returned [egreshko@localhost ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler mailto handler is claws-mail.desktop

Re: Default mailto application on Fedora 17

2013-01-07 Thread Dave Close
I wrote: I'm running Fedora 17 with the KDE desktop. KDE's system settings (control panel) claims the default mailto application is Kmail. And, since Gnome is still present, I see that it thinks the default mailto application is Evolution. I don't see anything in /etc/alternatives that seems

Re: Default mailto application on Fedora 17

2013-01-07 Thread Tom Horsley
Who invokes what for different mime types is a great mystery I spent some time decrypting (though I'm not sure a mailto link goes through the same process). Here's my results: http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/game/mimes.html -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Default mailto application on Fedora 17

2013-01-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Dave Close wrote: Again, can anyone explain what's going on? Is there some other place that Firefox looks to discover the system default? Unfortunately, KDE vs gnome looks in different places. You may want to try (one line): xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler mailto mozilla-

Re: Default mailto application on Fedora 17

2013-01-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/08/2013 02:13 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: Dave Close wrote: Again, can anyone explain what's going on? Is there some other place that Firefox looks to discover the system default? Unfortunately, KDE vs gnome looks in different places. You may want to try (one line): xdg-settings set

Re: Default mailto application on Fedora 17

2013-01-07 Thread Dave Close
If I understood Ed Greshko correctly, we have this situation. Who XDGGnome setting KDE setting TB Firefox default Me ?? Evolution Kmailyes Thunderbird Ed Claws Evolution Kmailno Evolution Ed Claws ThunderbirdKmailyes Evolution Ed TB

Re: Default mailto application on Fedora 17

2013-01-06 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 21:30 -0800, Dave Close wrote: I'm running Fedora 17 with the KDE desktop. KDE's system settings (control panel) claims the default mailto application is Kmail. And, since Gnome is still present, I see that it thinks the default mailto application is Evolution. I don't

Re: Default mailto application on Fedora 17

2013-01-06 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 09:13:03 -0600 Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 21:30 -0800, Dave Close wrote: I'm running Fedora 17 with the KDE desktop. KDE's system settings (control panel) claims the default mailto application is Kmail. And, since Gnome is still

Re: Default mailto application on Fedora 17

2013-01-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/06/2013 01:30 PM, Dave Close wrote: I'm running Fedora 17 with the KDE desktop. KDE's system settings (control panel) claims the default mailto application is Kmail. And, since Gnome is still present, I see that it thinks the default mailto application is Evolution. I don't see anything

Default mailto application on Fedora 17

2013-01-05 Thread Dave Close
I'm running Fedora 17 with the KDE desktop. KDE's system settings (control panel) claims the default mailto application is Kmail. And, since Gnome is still present, I see that it thinks the default mailto application is Evolution. I don't see anything in /etc/alternatives that seems relevant to a